The Works of Giulio Caccini

Caccini, one of the founders of the genre of opera, wrote 3 significantly influential operas himself. Euridice (1600), Il Rapimento de Celafo (1600) and the updated version of Euridice in 1602. Ironically, the first Euridice contained music by Peri, Caccini's main competitor. In addition to these 3 operas, Caccini wrote the music for one intermedio (Io che dal ciel cader farei la luna, 1589) and published two collections of songs and madrigals, both titled Le Nuove Musiche, in 1602 and 1624 respectively. I have included two versions of the popular song "Amor Ch'Attendi" from Le Nuove Musiche in my Blog. One of these versions is a Church organ interpretation of the piece and the other is the piano accompaniment played by me. Most of Caccini's madrigals are through-composed and contain a minimal amount of repetition. No music for multiple voices composed by Caccini survives, although the records from Florence indicate he was involved with polychoral music around 1610. Despite this brief involvement with polychoral music, Caccini was predominantly a composer of solo song. This was his strength and it is in this field that he accquired his immense fame.